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...person income guarantee, Nixon's plan embraces the minimum-income principle, although on a far more modest scale. Just where to place that income floor may remain a topic for argument. Nixon's decisive re-election may reinforce his desire to make the work requirements more stringent...
...Marcos can carry out his promised reforms, get the economy moving and provide an honest administration, he will continue to command the support of most Filipinos. But whether the people like it or not, the Philippines for the foreseeable future will continue under a dictatorship that is somewhat more stringent than that of Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore but less oppressive than that of Chung Hee Park in South Korea...
...airborne illness, the Federal Aviation Administration requires all U.S. command pilots to undergo regular physical examinations every six months. Few doubt that the examinations, which include annual electrocardiograms for all pilots over 40, are necessary. But a growing number of doctors and FAA officials now question if they are stringent enough...
Protogyny (the development of a male from a functional female) is not uncommon among other kinds of tropical fish. But the rigid hierarchy of the wrasse harems represents a much more stringent control over the production of males than is found in the comparatively random sex reversals of "schooling" fish. Robertson believes that the inbreeding produced by this aquatic pecking order is genetically advantageous to the species. Because "the social organization is a framework within which the selective process works," he concludes, the genes passed on by each male wrasse are those best adapted to the environment of the harem...
...first time this November, all Americans in foreign countries will be able, at least in theory, to cast absentee ballots in the presidential election. By abrogating some of the more stringent state residency laws, the Voting Rights Act amendments of 1970 were meant to enfranchise about 750,000 Americans of voting age living abroad-not counting servicemen, who have been voting from overseas for years...